Modernism
Subtitle: a short introduction
By: David Ayers.
Series: Blackwell introductions to literature
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "This short introduction to modernism analyses the movement from the perspective of English and American literature. It provides a critical overview of some of the central texts of literary modernism, considering both established works and those that have only recently come to critical attention. Author David Ayers shows that, however diverse modernist texts are, they are linked by concerns about social modernization and the role of art and the artist. He also demonstrates that German Marxism and French deconstruction have been crucial in realizing the full complexity of modernism. Ayers's arguments are illustrated with reference to the works of T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wallace Stevens, Nancy Cunard, Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, among others."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: H.D., Ezra Pound and imagism; title: T.S. Eliot and modernist reading; title: 'The waste land', Nancy Cunard, and Mina Loy; title: Wallace Stevens and romantic legacy; title: Wyndham Lewis : genius and art; title: James Joyce : Ulysses and love; title: D.H. Lawrence : jazz and life; title: Virginia Woolf : art and class; title: The modernity of Adorno and Benjamin; title: The post-structuralist inflection.